2014 News Archive

Georgetown announces two new programs to prepare students to become entrepreneurs through a partnership with local startup incubator 1776 and a new Startup Stipends program designed to help graduating seniors.

Christine Lagarde, managing director for the International Monetary Fund, told a Georgetown audience today that the current level of global economic growth will be insufficient to address the world's most complex challenges.

George J. Peacock (C’84) has nearly done it all when it comes to the Hilltop—as an undergraduate, he drove a GUTS bus, sang with the Georgetown Chimes, and worked at Yates Field House. But as the new Georgetown University Alumni Association (GUAA) president, he’s just getting started.

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) hold a symposium to highlight education for girls in Nigeria, where the militant group Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds of them earlier this year. Watch the webcast.

George Akerlof, a 2001 Nobel Prize-winner in economic sciences and senior resident scholar at the International Monetary Fund, will join the faculty of Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy this November.